How to Use superpower in a Sentence

superpower

noun
  • The acid in buttermilk is the key to its superpowers in the kitchen.
    Carly Westerfield, Bon Appétit, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The age of drone warfare is here, and Ukraine wants to be a superpower.
    Justin Ling, WIRED, 2 May 2024
  • The world wants to know: What kind of superpower will America be in the years to come?
    New York Times, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The pups are back on the big screen with new superpowers and a new adventure.
    Tanay Howard, Parents, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Because his superpower is to see the good in others and bring that out in them.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2022
  • And the fans will come back, because the superpower of any teen show is its fandom.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 10 May 2021
  • That's all a part of it and why lying is his superpower.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The first person that needs to believe in your superpower is you.
    Luciana Paulise, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The United States is an oil superpower in its own right.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 8 July 2021
  • This is why now is the time to help leaders gain the superpower of compassion.
    Sanja Licina, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • The only slippery banana on the show is the superpowers.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
  • This was, to me, the superpower of Flack: her willingness not just to take you to a feeling but to first build a place to contain it.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The fact that this superpower is not yet available to us all may just be a fluke of history.
    New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Yet through the support of an emerging space superpower, Russia still has plans for the moon.
    WIRED, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The leaders of the world’s two rival superpowers have plenty to talk about.
    David Pierson, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • That has changed over the past decade with China’s emergence as a nascent superpower.
    Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
  • Your ability to make it through the harshness of your past is a superpower.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Explore the World of Hip-Hop Over five decades, hip-hop has grown from a new art form to a culture-defining superpower.
    Salamishah Tillet, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • To my grade school mind, however, the braid was a superpower that was wasted on her.
    Parizaad Khan Sethi, Allure, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Like me, Kate didn’t feel like this ability to pass was any sort of superpower.
    Beth Ashley, refinery29.com, 7 Apr. 2022
  • In the face of that, Stephen's cynicism becomes a kind of superpower.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Care is a superpower rooted in our DNA for our species to survive.
    Ashoka, Forbes, 9 May 2021
  • For years, Boris Johnson’s superpower was his lack of shame.
    Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
  • But if Russia, the erstwhile superpower, does lose its war in Ukraine, will that end Putin's grip on power?
    Peter Weber, The Week, 23 Jan. 2023
  • But Guyton’s superpower is more about the content of her songs than smothering the charts with hits.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2022
  • The great fear in 1997 was that this savage new virus would reassort once more, and gain the superpower of easy human-to-human spread.
    Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
  • But in June, Russia also announced plans to build a base on the moon with the world's newest superpower in space: China.
    Kristin Fisher, CNN, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Your 'superpowers' are the strengths that distinctly set you apart.
    William Arruda, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The kind of thinking that built empires and assembly lines—that beautifully predictable, step-by-step, linear logic—is starting to look less like a superpower and more like running Windows 95 in a world demanding quantum leaps.
    Lee Salisbury, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Behind its façade of superpower status lay a stagnating economy.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'superpower.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: